“You bet you will. Because you’re out! And you’re out! And the three of you—out! You’ve got an hour to clear out your desks. And…”
“But you said you’d take the heat!”

“Exactly! You think it’s easy firing all of you?”

“But…”

“I can just imagine all those stories the next few days: ‘Steele forced to clean house.’ ‘Steele’s office in disarray.’ ‘Steele this,’ ‘Steele that.’ You have no idea what a pain it is, seeing your name in the headlines all the time.”